FrameThrower · Actors · Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
15 films · 1,508 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1982–2023
Born 31 December 1943 · Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Sir Ben Kingsley is an English actor. He has received accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 and received the Britannia Award in 2013.
Born to an English mother and an Indian Gujarati father with roots in Jamnagar, Kingsley began his career in theatre, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and spending the next 15 years appearing mainly on stage.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 15 films · 1,508 frames · top-billed in 11 · 1982–2023
- Academy Award for Best Actor1983
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama1982
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor1982
- BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles1983
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role1983
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie2002
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire2000
- British Independent Film Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film2001
- Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor2001
- European Film Award for Best Actor2001
- Knight Bachelor2001
- Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording1984
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,508 frames from the 15 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ben takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 15 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work Ben takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Jungle Book
2016 · Bagheera (voice)
Self/less
2015 · Damian
Robot Overlords
2015 · Robin Smythe
Hugo
2011 · Georges Méliès
Shutter Island
2010 · Dr. Cawley
A Sound of Thunder
2005 · Charles Hatton
Suspect Zero
2004 · Benjamin O'Ryan
Sexy Beast
2000 · Don Logan
Schindler's List
1993 · Itzhak Stern
Gandhi
1982 · Mahatma Gandhi
Poison
· Dr. Ganderbai
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
2023 · Imdad Khan / Croupier
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Trevor Slattery
Iron Man 3
2013 · Trevor Slattery
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001 · Specialist (voice)
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,508 frames from Ben Kingsley's 15 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.